Biography
Diederich completed his PhD in 1979 at the University of Heidelberg (Germany) with H. A. Staab. He carried out postdoctoral research at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA; USA) and at the Max Planck Institute for Medicinal Research in Heidelberg. After completing his habilitation in 1985 he returned to UCLA, and in 1992 he joined the ETH Zürich. He has been the chairman of the editorial board of Angewandte Chemie since 2004. Besides the areas of molecular recognition in chemistry and biology, supramolecular nanochemistry, the chemistry of synthetic fullerenes, and novel materials from carbon-rich acetylene derivatives, Diederich's research group is also interested in medicinal chemistry eg. of antimalarial drugs.